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It’s natural, election years, to breed divisiveness
We concentrate on differences as though they matter most
Thanksgiving is a holiday about inclusiveness
A day of gratitude and gathering to eat the turkey roast

We’re thankful for our freedoms, free to choose our way of life
We’re thankful for elections, how the people have their say
We’re thankful post-election that we’re not embroiled in strife
We’re thankful too to each of you who’re in it come what may

We thank the Lord above for loving friends and family
And for the acts of kindness that we witness every day
But in our joy we’re mindful of the world’s calamities
And our responsibilities to help, each in our way

11/22/16

Potpourri

Trump’s epidermis, tissue thin
Incensed by “Trump” on SNL
And by the cast of Hamilton
Who asked Mike Pence to govern well

Last weekend, sort of a parade
Of would-be candidates for Plums
Smiling, bowing, all charade
Each hoping for a Trump up-thumb

Trump’s foreign empire bodes not well
All one eleven companies
In eighteen countries. He must sell.
He can’t accept gratuities

Right there in Washington, the swamps
The White Supremacists convened
A conference heilling Trump, their champ
But Donald didn’t intervene

Congressional Republicans
Are drooling over cuts they’ll make
On all Obama’s hard won plans
And regulations, all at stake

The President Elect produced
A kafkaesque-ish video
Describing programs he will boost
A far cry from a month ago

11/21/16

 

Consider the battle in Mosul, Iraq
The Kurds and Iraqis are joined in the fight
They’re both fighting ISIL to take Mosul back
They each have agendas when end is in sight

To Kurds, independence has long been their goal
A Kurdistan country including Kirkuk
Iraq doesn’t buy it; ‘though liking Kurd’s role
And Turkey opposed it in actions they took

On freeing Iraq, troops will move on to Syria
Russia is bombing Assad’s enemies
Including Aleppo creating hysteria
Aiming to target civilians, it seems

The US is backing the rid-Assad rebels
While Russia is backing the pro-Assad men
All of them fighting to oust ISIL devils
Their enemy’s enemy isn’t their friend

Into this cauldron comes blundering Trump
Along with advisor, Islam hater, Lynn
While Russian aggression’s poised upward to jump –
And this is just part of the pickle we’re in …

11/20/16

 

Don Trump is known to have a short attention span
He’s also known to have no closely held beliefs
Let’s add to these: he’s swayed by whom he’s last to hear
It’s Lynn and Bannon who’ll be whispering his ear
They’re the ones who’ll be the closest to the Chief
Controlling access and advising all they can

So what might be expected from these men, hell bent?
As such, what actions might they cause, then, to transpire?
Though Bannon being racist, bigot not withstanding
His infrastructure bill may have good chances standing
Well with Dems and certain Reps who’d it require
To pass it over classical Republican dissent

Flynn’s influence does worry me the most, you see
Security Advisor to the President, his role
His ties to Russia and to Turkey not withstanding
All coupled with his noted lack of understanding
Of how Iran’s Agreement is achieving goals
To cancel it could pave the way to World War Three

11/18/16

 

I know it’s something you’d not want to do
But put yourself, this once, in Don Trump’s shoes
You really want to honor loyalty
But those you’d choose don’t have abilities
Or knowledge for the job (they’re hardly best)
Or couldn’t pass the confirmation test

But then you’re stuck inviting to your side
The very candidates you can’t abide
There’d be no question that they’re qualified
But through the campaign, you they did deride
A real conundrum from which you can’t hide
As President Elect you must decide

Now wear the shoes someone anti Trump
Who railed against him out there on the stump
You’ve called him ugly names, which may be true
And he has done the same thing back to you
Then you receive a call from Trump to meet
To be considered for a Plum job sweet
A real conundrum from which you can’t hide
To go or not to go you must decide

11/17/16

 

Trump’s entourage is coming into focus
It’s like magicians chanting hocus-pocus
Christy’s there and then he disappears
Others on Trump’s team may have those fears

Trump loyalty is his criterion
Above the candidate’s experience
Forget conflicts of interest; count, they shan’t
Then, too, they must be Donald sycophants

His right-hand man’s a rabid racist bigot
Sheer venom spews from Bannon like a spigot
And on Trump’s left, Lieutenant General Flynn
Who’s in cahoots with Putin; that’s the spin

Meanwhile, Republicans are pleased, it’s plain
Preparing to dismantle years of gain
But Democrats are coming out in mass
In order not to let those measures pass

A number of the actions Trump’s proposed
Would violate our Constitution’s prose
ACLU is gearing up to fight …
The next four years will be a long, dark night

11/16/16

 

“Give Trump a chance to be successful”
Aired among some Democrats
Their best intentions, I can guess,
Are: give him room to do his act
Which sounds appropriate, in fact,
But how does one define success?

Success for Trump would be most stressful
For minorities and others
Rather, where we disagree,
We must rally all together
Not let Donald have his druthers
That would be a tragedy

Two new words I learned, delightful
Wordsmith’s website on the net
Coulrophobia’s the first
‘Fear of clowns’, election’s curse
Trump’s a clown we won’t forget

The second word is most insightful
Pegging Trump’s transition team
It is kakistocracy
Bad for our democracy
Look it up. It’s apt, I deem

11/15/16

 

This is Trump-day number five
Trump decisions underway
Making me feel hope deprived
‘Bout Trump’s choices made today

Meet Reince Priebus and Steve Bannon:
Reince, a light weight, seldom heeded
Steve’s a heavy, no loose cannon
Neither has experience needed

Bannon will be Trump’s adviser
Known for his strong alt-right views:
Immigration? a despiser
Ban the Muslims, hate the Jews

Priebus will be Chief of Staff
Of his insights, how things work,
Rience’s knowledge is a laugh!
Oh, the pitfalls, where they lurk

This may be our situation:
A know-nothing President
Governing this woeful nation
With a novice cabinet

Really, when Trump needs advice
Who’ll he turn to when he must?
Neither Bannon nor Reince Priebus
Just his kids does Donald trust

Clinton was the people’s choice
By two million votes or more
Other democratic states
Choose among their candidates
By majorities in score
Time’s long past to raise our voice

Drafters of the Constitution
Worried that the votes be cast
Only by men qualified
Smart, informed and gentrified
Choosing from among the best
A President to lead the nation

Thus the College of Electors –
Purpose served, now out of date
It distorts one’s voting score
Montana’s votes are worth much more
Than those of California State
Electors / Population factor

Change is needed in due course
To the US Constitution
In the meantime, what to do?
There’s a movement that is new
Change-dot-org has a petition:
Electors choose the people’s choice!

11/13/16

 

Three nights running, demonstrations
By the thousands, Democrats
Peacefully throughout the nation
Giving vent to their frustrations
Trump did win. A sad, sad fact

Some might ask, what is the purpose
Next election’s years away
Demonstrating seems so useless
Does expose them to abuses
Whose opinion will it sway?

What they demonstrate to me
That Trump’s power must be stemmed
Not by our passivity
But by our activities
Now’s the time to be with them

11/12/16